The Amazing Amur Falcon

Thanks to our work at Chizami, we (Go Wild, Dustyfoot Productions and NEN) were called in to help out with another conservation initiative by Conservation India and Nagaland Wildlife and Biodiversity Conservation Trust - this time to help save the Amur Falcons from getting slaughtered at the Doyang reservoir.
I created a small booklet on the Amur Falcon as well as an Amur passport activity booklet that could be used by the kids in the field. Along with our 'under the canopy' training manual we conducted an intensive 4 day workshop to train the locals, village elders and potential educators. This led to the formation of three clubs that are now running the 'Friends of the Amur Falcon' education program.


Do check out the Video and Website for more : https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=oTgYL2vbKa8
http://www.nagalandconservation.in/conservation-education/

Publications by Our Hoolock Gibbon Eco-Club Kids (Chizami) ......(does us Proud Part II)

The kids and the trainers have learnt so much about wildlife and in many ways have surpassed us - It is amazing to see tangible outcomes from this venture. For the first time butterflies of Chizami have been documented and a small booklet came out and within 6 months a reprint with 215 butterfly species photographed and identified from Chizami. Then a Bird book with 90 recorded species - and this from a region that has seen severe losses due to hunting.

 Along with that Haiku poems printed in Sanctuary cub Magazine -  a snapshot of the issue here.

Chizami - Hoolock Gibbon Eco-Club Does us Proud Part I

HGEC in Nagaland is our first Eco-Club in a region that is rife with wild meat hunting. Our kids at the North East Network, Chizami under the expert guidance of Seno and Akole with our trainers Alo and Peter have done a fantastic job. Here are a few pictures from 2010 - 2014

Thanks to Rita for pulling me in to this awesome adventure 

 Peter Payal and Alo after a day in training

 Peter helping Neelesh capture and document local fish

 Rita Banerji and Maya Khosla from Dusty Foot Productions (the founders of this program) and Payal from Go wild Workshops with the first batch of HGEC

 Two years later the Junior batch of kids working on poster presentations

 The senior Batch working on a scientific Paper

 The Junior Batch being introduced to freshwater conservation with Neelesh from IISER

 Learning how to make bio-maps

 Using Binoculars is fun

 especially when they are upside down!

 Taking classroom learning to the field

Macro in Cameras is a challenge but the children master it under the expert guidance of Rita and Shilpi from Dusty foot productions
Check these sites out for more details -
http://zoosprint.org/ZooPrintMagazine/2012/December/4-7.pdf
http://dustyfootindia.com/?page_id=556
http://northeastnetwork.org/event/course-environment-chizami